I've done something stupid

[Michael Harnois <mharnois sbtek net>]

Not the first time, of course, but this time I need some help working
my way out of it.

I've busted something related to the gnome infrastructure, and I can't 
figure out what. The symptom is that both panel and gmc segfault on
me.

gdb:

Core was generated by `panel'.
Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
(gdb) where
#0  0x405bbba6 in free ()
#1  0x405bb29a in __malloc_check_init ()
#2  0x405bb8e5 in malloc ()
#3  0x405bc868 in calloc ()
#4  0x40466e9b in g_malloc0 ()
#5  0x4040cda1 in gtk_type_create ()
#6  0x4040dabc in gtk_type_init_builtin_types ()
#7  0x4040dc46 in gtk_type_init ()
#8  0x40205f36 in gnome_client_init ()
#9  0x40219abe in gnome_init ()
#10 0x8054546 in main ()

Core was generated by `gmc'.
Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
(gdb) where
#0  0x403cfba6 in free ()
#1  0x403cf29a in __malloc_check_init ()
#2  0x403cf8e5 in malloc ()
#3  0x403d0868 in calloc ()
#4  0x4028ae9b in g_malloc0 ()
#5  0x4022fda1 in gtk_type_create ()
#6  0x40230abc in gtk_type_init_builtin_types ()
#7  0x40230c46 in gtk_type_init ()
#8  0x40029f36 in gnome_client_init ()
#9  0x4003dabe in gnome_init ()
#10 0x8051742 in main ()

The output from strace likewise shows the crash occurring in the same
spot in each; this is from panel:

<snip>

personality(PER_LINUX)                  = 0
getpid()                                = 13051
brk(0)                                  = 0x80c4064
brk(0x80c408c)                          = 0x80c408c
brk(0x80c5000)                          = 0x80c5000
brk(0x80c6000)                          = 0x80c6000
brk(0x80c7000)                          = 0x80c7000
brk(0x80c8000)                          = 0x80c8000
brk(0x80c9000)                          = 0x80c9000
brk(0x80ca000)                          = 0x80ca000
brk(0x80cb000)                          = 0x80cb000
brk(0x80cc000)                          = 0x80cc000
brk(0x80cd000)                          = 0x80cd000
brk(0x80ce000)                          = 0x80ce000
brk(0x80cf000)                          = 0x80cf000
brk(0x80d0000)                          = 0x80d0000
brk(0x80d1000)                          = 0x80d1000
brk(0x80d2000)                          = 0x80d2000
brk(0x80d3000)                          = 0x80d3000
brk(0x80d4000)                          = 0x80d4000
brk(0x80d5000)                          = 0x80d5000
brk(0x80d6000)                          = 0x80d6000
brk(0x80d7000)                          = 0x80d7000
brk(0x80d9000)                          = 0x80d9000
brk(0x80db000)                          = 0x80db000
brk(0x80dd000)                          = 0x80dd000
brk(0x80df000)                          = 0x80df000
brk(0x80e0000)                          = 0x80e0000
sigaction(SIGCHLD, {0x8054394, [], 0}, NULL) = 0
open("/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/locale.alias", O_RDONLY) = 4
fstat(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=8407, ...}) = 0
mmap(0, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x40271000
read(4, "#\t$TOG: locale.alias /main/22 1"..., 4096) = 4096
read(4, "w\t\t\tiw_IL.ISO8859-8\niw_IL\t\t"..., 4096) = 4096
read(4, "apanese Edition\nKorean_Korea.94"..., 4096) = 215
read(4, "", 4096)                       = 0
close(4)                                = 0
munmap(0x40271000, 4096)                = 0
open("/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/locale.dir", O_RDONLY) = 4
fstat(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2159, ...}) = 0
mmap(0, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x40271000
read(4, "#\t$XConsortium: locale.dir /mai"..., 4096) = 2159
close(4)                                = 0
munmap(0x40271000, 4096)                = 0
access("/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/C/XLC_LOCALE", R_OK) = 0
open("/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/C/XLC_LOCALE", O_RDONLY) = 4
fstat(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=598, ...}) = 0
mmap(0, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x40271000
read(4, "#  $XConsortium: C /main/8 1996/"..., 4096) = 598
read(4, "", 4096)                       = 0
close(4)                                = 0
munmap(0x40271000, 4096)                = 0
brk(0x80e5000)                          = 0x80e5000
brk(0x80e6000)                          = 0x80e6000
brk(0x80e7000)                          = 0x80e7000
--- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) ---
+++ killed by SIGSEGV +++

-- 
Michael D. Harnois, Redeemer Lutheran Church, Washburn, IA 
mharnois@sbt.net                      aa0bt@aa0bt.ampr.org 
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